Bassett Creek

When I first started walking down to the old conduit to Bassett Creek in April you couldn't help but notice how much trash was there and it's just not that easy to clean it up.  I was there again yesterday to take a photo. What a difference a week makes (and a little rain)!  It's looking pretty great. I like it here because it feels like a little wilderness in the city. Bassett Creek starts out at Medicine Lake in Plymouth some 12 miles away. On the other side of downtown the creek goes underground for a mile and a half before it ends up here and emptying into the Mississippi River.  I don't have a canoe and I'm not interested in exploring places like this but some folks have.
http://www.wurlington-bros.com/Museum/Archives/XRag/XRagBassetts.html
           
 In the early 90's the creek was diverted and another tunnel takes water out closer to St. Anthony Falls.  The old conduit takes the overflow from storms.  So I assume the latest storms we just had flushed the water and trash from the outlet and into the Mississippi.

 Yes, that's probably some of the old water bottles I wanted to get out of the creek but couldn't reach them.  See you in Iowa.  Water bottles make up a big portion of what I find so it's no wonder some communities want to ban them.

Some of that creek trash landed here on one the most accessible spots on the river walk.  Perfect. I call this Debbie Duncan beach because she played here (jazz) last summer on National Night Out and she was awesome.  So this beach should be awesome too.  Some of the water bottles I pulled out here were all duct taped together like a little raft.  Interesting.

At the end of the walk I was one glove short!